This is my attempt to do daily/weekly sketches and learn new words at the same time through dictionary.com's Word of the Day! I might add random sketches once in a while of course!

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oneiric – to dream…

I keep coming back to Alice in Wonderland theme – this time the sketch of Alice has black hair and meets the Cheshire cat.

I finally finished Through the Looking Glass, this was several weeks ago but somehow not as fun as Adventures in Wonderland.

What book am I currently reading now? Walter Kirn’s Up in the Air. Now that can have an oneiric theme too.

oneiric \oh-NY-rik\ , noun;

1. Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.

Quotes:On this score, the novel might easily drift off into an oneiric never-never land, but Mr. Welch doesn’t let this happen.— Peter Wild, “Visions of Blackfoot”, New York Times, November 2, 1986

Some — not all — of Caravaggio’s painting uniquely compels you to grope for words in order to describe the optical novelty and disturbing immediacy of the images. They’re at once coldly precise, voluptuously real and strangely oneiric.— Peter Robb, “Candid camera”, The Guardian, October 20, 2001